Weird Science
All the girls at school loved the way Petey was perfectly comfortable hanging upside down from the ceiling; they begged him to tell them how he did it. Petey, a frog of few words, just said “weird science”. . .
Cure for Shyness
Lily, always shy, took the advice of one of the “popular” girls at school and decided to fight shyness with bold for the Prom. She hoped she hadn’t gone too far . . .
Scarlet Letter
All of her life, everyone had kept Tina at arms length; she never had any close friends. She never understood why until a high school English Literature teacher assigned the class Nathaniel Hawthorne’s The Scarlet Letter. . .
New Glasses
Billy Sue-Beth’s family was moving from the Texas Gulf Coast to New York, where Billy Sue-Beth would be enrolled in high school. Billy Sue-Beth was worried that her Texas Gulf Coast accent would make fitting in with her NYNY class mates difficult. She was also concerned about her new glasses . . . . . David, Sf.G.